Adonis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCDCDEDFEGH IJIJIKIKLIMNMNMNONOP| The gods did love Adonis and for this | A |
| He died ere time had furrowed his young cheek | B |
| For Aphrodit slew him with a kiss | A |
| He sighed one sigh as though he fain would speak | B |
| The name he loved but that his breath grown weak | B |
| Died on his lips So died the summer breeze | C |
| And all the wood was hushed a minute's space | D |
| Where I stood listening underneath the trees | C |
| Until a wood chat from her secret place | D |
| Chirped in an undertone He is not dead | E |
| Not dead for lo the bloom upon his face | D |
| Is ruddy as the newly blossomed rose | F |
| Which even yet is woven round his head | E |
| But sleep more sweet than waking dream doth close | G |
| The laughter of his eyes He is not dead '' | H |
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| Alone in that fair wood the livelong day | I |
| And through the silent night I watched him near | J |
| But in the morning he was fled away | I |
| When broke the dawn upon me cold and clear | J |
| I looked within the thicket where he lay | I |
| And lo the sod which he had pressed in death | K |
| Was white with blossoms scattered from the may | I |
| Which made the thick air sweet with their sweet breath | K |
| But he was gone and I went o'er the heath | L |
| Clutching like one distraught the dim air grey | I |
| With dawning for a voice encompassed me | M |
| Crying Fair boy thy youth was but a span | N |
| Yet did it circle in eternity | M |
| Thy epic was accomplish d A man | N |
| Fills but the measure of his destiny | M |
| And thine was all complete Ere age began | N |
| To mar the royal palace of thy youth | O |
| With upper storeys of less perfect plan | N |
| Death kindly Death filled with immortal ruth | O |
| Took back the trowel from the builder's hand | P |
| And wrote his fecit' on thy work of truth '' | - |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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